I got my first hate mail!

[Pacifist Patriot]

Thanks to my letters to the editor, I received this today.

Dear Leftist Liberal:

It must be hell on earth to be a mean-spirited , looney, leftist-liberal Democrat! Your contribution to society is the negative bashing of President Bush; how pitiful.

As a member of the minority, keep up your ignorance and continue to the destruction of the minority party.

We love winning elections, thank you.

Sincerely,
Thomas W. Matey
Violet A. Matey
Somewhere in...
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They sent this to everyone who had written negative letters to the editor this week and copied Florida Today and the Orlando Sentinel. They also attached some articles that I guess I'm supposed to read, but I have better things to do with my time.

I have fantasizes of responding with a letter loaded with biblical quotes, letting them know that Jesus personally told me Bush was the anti-Christ, citing the ways he is violating the cherished values of right to life, fiscal responsibility, honesty and integrity (not to mention propping up corporations with WELFARE!) and then signing off by praying for their salvation....but I think I'll ignore it.

Edited to remove the moron's exact address.

[Liberal Ohioan]

1. no, let them have it

[cynatnite]

2. This was an email you recieved or published in the paper? n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. No, this was a personal letter mailed to my home!

[cynatnite]

10. Edit out the address. Should not be on a public forum n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. Already done.

I had copied and pasted it from an email I sent my parents.

[murielm99]

15. I have gotten a few of those, too.

The complimentary ones sign their names. The other ones often don't sign or include an address.

[guruoo]

39. Doners

http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php?search=1&type=loc&addr=8701+Southern+Breeze+Dr&zip=32836

[walldude]

53. Interesting that there are 2 donations

One by Ms. Violet Matey and the other by a Mr and Mrs Thomas Matey.. How much is the limit on private donations?

[Roachman]

3. Good idea

But it is hard to tell whether he is a religious-fanatic idiot or a economic-idiot or a pure-hate-idiot from the letter, so it might not piss him off enough.

[maine_raptor]

4. Send them a large Thank You note

with postage due

[thefloyd]

5. The win elections line

must go. Basically, Cons are good at marketing campaigns. Not running the country

[G_j]

6. **I don't think it is allowed to include the address etc. here

besides that, congrats, it must have been a good letter!

[cynatnite]

9. I was concerned about that as well.

Yeah, nice to see, but the address should be edited out.

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. It's already been done and explained.

[cynatnite]

18. no prob :) n/t

[NewInNewJ.]

7. I believe you hit them hard

or they wouldn't respond at all. Congratulations!!!!!!!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Ding Ding Ding

Spot on.

[rosesaylavee]

14. Jesus speaks to you too!

Let this yahoo go. Responding will only give him satisfaction. It's a bully thing. They hate being ignored. We are feeding his satisfaction right now by even talking about it.

Pray for him. That will either help or bother him that you doing it. Win/win either way.

Peace.

[Mz Pip]

16. My response to Mr. Mately

Why so angry, Mr. Mately? One would think with your crowd controlling all three branches of the government you wouldn't get your panties in such a twist over a bit of criticism of your annointed one. Guess you must be one of those folks who want to live in a totalitarian state and won't be happy until you do.


THese idiots are bitter, no matter what. THey really are a sorry bunch.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. Exactly. In a weird way I actually feel sorry for people like this.

[KingFlorez]

19. They are actually under the impression they won those elections?

Such stupid people

[sakabatou]

20. Huh?

"As a member of the minority, keep up your ignorance and continue to the destruction of the minority party." Are they really that fucking ignorant?

[G_j]

21. I confess I've had a similar fantasy

since God talks to Pat Robertson, why shouldn't he talk to me?
Told me Bush works for the Devil and woe to all those who are deceived into following him into hell!

[Pacifist Patriot]

36. I would so love to broadcast a "born again"

program that was done "in all sincerity." I mean not like a Jon Stewart skit. Wonder how many people you could sway back by telling them that Jesus knows what Bush is doing and man is he pissed!

[G_j]

44. so I am born again

(and again) and Jesus tells me every day that love is the only way.


But truly, any one of us has as much right to speak from 'divine' inspiration as anyone else.

:-)

[FlaGranny]

54. I guess everyone has the right

to speak from devine inspiration, but there IS such a thing as integrity. The only trouble is that if you go around telling people that God and Jesus are talking to you, they'll put you in a mental hospital for observation (unless you're a TV preacher). I know this - I used to work for a psychiatric hospital. A good percentage of the folks there were there because God was talking to them, but sometimes it was just the TV sending them subliminal messages.

[lpbk2713]

22. Does their tirade imply there is such a thing as

"positive" bashing of the pResident? Typical mouth-breathers.

I am positive he is worth bashing.

[KerryOn]

23. What was in your letter to the editor that got him so worked up? n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

34. Which one?

<throwing my shoulder out here, but...>

I get published pretty regularly. ;) I suspect it was the one printed earlier this week calling on the president to answer a few specific questions. Like what the hell he was doing partying while constituents were drowning.

[theHandpuppet]

24. Send them a nice note with this message attached:

Dear Thomas and Violet Matey...

I was so genuinely touched by your letter that I have made a contribution in the amount of XXX to MoveOn.org in your names. Thank you for the inspiration.

Patriotically yours,

XXXXXXXXXX

[Kerrytravelers]

33. And since you made it to MoveOn in their names, doens't that mean if will

show up on their federal donations? :) Teeheehee!!!! :)

[theHandpuppet]

42. All the better!

Just kill 'em with a wee bit of that left-wing pinko commie feminazi tree-hugging kindness. }(

[Pacifist Patriot]

48. I sent them a gift.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4720917&mesg_id=4720917

[stevedeshazer]

25. Google is your friend

:) The following is a matter of public record:

Matey, Thomas W Mr. (Retired), (Zip code: 32819) $375 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 02/05/04
Matey, Thomas W Mrs. (Retired), (Zip code: 32819) $375 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 02/05/04

Matey, Thomas (Matey Inc/Real Estate Management), (Zip code: 32819) $250 to REPUBLICAN PARTY OF FLORIDA on 02/02/04

Matey, Violet A Mrs. (Matey Inc./Real Estate Mgt.), (Zip code: 32819) $250 to FRIENDS OF DAVE WELDON on 03/31/04

MATEY, VIOLET A MS. (MATEY INC./REAL ESTATE EXECUTIVE), (Zip code: 32819) $500 to BUSH-CHENEY '04 (PRIMARY) INC. on 06/29/04

MATEY, VIOLET A MS. (MATEY INC./REAL ESTATE EXECUTIVE), (Zip code: 32819) $500 to BUSH-CHENEY '04 (PRIMARY) INC. on 08/17/04

link: http://www.city-data.com/elec/elec-ORLANDO-FL.html

[WhoDoYouTrust]

32. LOL, Great minds!

Just came back from googling.

:hi:

[stevedeshazer]

43. Amazing what you can learn, no?

:hi:

[Pacifist Patriot]

50. My mom surprised me.

She learned even more about them and I didn't think she had it in her. They actually sound like a pretty interesting couple. Too bad they're idiots.

My dad wanted me to send them a subscription to Mother Jones....bill me later.

[stevedeshazer]

51. I think I'd like your mom and dad

:)

[Gabi Hayes]

26. just send them this link....why waste words?

http://home.comcast.net/~wizardofwhimsy/

[stopbush]

27. "Mean-spirited" seems to be a favorite with them lately.

It's a tacit admission that their boy is a major fuck up, but they're in effect saying, "we all know that, you don't have to be mean about it."

[Iris]

55. well, they certainly know how to recognize mean-spiritedness

They've only got to look in the mirror.

[stevedeshazer]

28. He's a Domer legend

• Former Notre Dame All-America golfer Tom Matey ('53) posted the 13th victory of his amateur career by winning the 2004 club championship at Orange Tree Golf Club in Orlando. The 72-year-old rallied to shoot his age in winning the medal-play title. Matey is president of Las Olas Resorts (Cocoa Beach), which recently received the prestigious Gold Crown designation from Resort Condominiums International (RCI).

http://und.collegesports.com/sports/monogramclub/spec-rel/122604aci.html

[porphyrian]

29. Eat shit, Mateys.

When we want the opinion of yet another whining bush apologist, we'll turn of Fox "news."

[Iris]

30. Wait! A republican called LIBERALS mean-spirited? Why? Because we

criticize the president instead of poor people?

[unless]

31. Can't post addresses?

I applaud the compassion behind deleting the address, but it's not a legal issue, is it? Doesn't the recipient own the letter & have the right to use it as he/she sees fit?

(aww, look, my first post!)

-unless

[VOX]

35. He's got bucks and is in his 70s. Ask him if he's getting SS also.

If he is, he should send those checks back, because it was the "looney, leftist-liberal Democrats" who created that program, and his God-made-flesh icon, The Chimp, wants to eradicate it!

:mad: :grr: :nuke:

[NoSheep]

37. Make your point now. Do it. This is a perfect opportunity to address the

ignorance that is killing this country. Do it now. We'll help. Post the address. We will write til our fingers are bleeding.
Do it. :popcorn:

[Berry Cool]

38. I've found it is quite common, when some people have nothing else

with which to refute a person's negative statements, to simply call that person "mean-spirited."

That way, they can try to make YOU look like the bad guy, rather than them. "Who cares if you're right about what you say; you're just so MEAN to say it."

[sinkingfeeling]

40. Oh, they're just ticked off because they realize all that $$$ they

donated to Chimpy was such a wate. They were swindled!!

[Career Prole]

41. Has anyone ever been positively bashed?

"Your contribution to society is the negative bashing of yadayada douche-lips..."

Ahoy, Mateys...if ye be shrublubbers, ye be in the minority...ARRRRR!

[FreedomAngel82]

45. Oh brother

And we all know this person would be the first to critize if this was Clinton, Gore or Kerry. :eyes: Especially if it was one of them.

[Pacifist Patriot]

49. That irony did not escape me.

I suspect free speech is all well and good as long as they are the ones doing the speaking.

[SheilaT]

46. How about

sending them a letter that goes
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Matey
You need to know that some mean-spirited person has been impersonating you and sending ignorant drivel out under your name. You might want to inform the authorities of this identity theft.

It would piss them off quite thoroughly, which would be worth it.

[Pacifist Patriot]

47. Ooo, good one. I did this....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4720917&mesg_id=4720917

[mondo joe]

52. Remind them Hitler liked winning elections too - but he was out of office

eventually too.